Ross Andrew Wilson is an Australian singer-songwriter,musician and producer. He is the co-founder and frontman of the long-standing rock groups Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock,as well as a number of other former bands,in addition to performing solo. He has produced records for bands such as Skyhooks and Jo Jo Zep &the Falcons,as well as for those of his own bands. He appeared as a judge on celebrity singing TV series It Takes Two from 2005. Wilson was individually inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame in 1989 and again as a member of Daddy Cool in 2006.
Until December was a San Francisco-based rock band active in the early to late 1980s. The band released four 12" singles in 1985 on 415 Records / CBS. A self-titled album Until December was released in 1986 by 415 Records / CBS,which contained their biggest hit "Heaven".
"Eagle Rock" is an Australian rock song,released by Daddy Cool on May 21,1971 on the Sparmac record label. It went on to become the best-selling Australian single of the year,achieving gold status in eleven weeks,and remaining at No. 1 on the national charts for a (then) record ten weeks. "Eagle Rock" also spent 17 weeks at the No. 1 spot on the Melbourne Top 40 Singles Chart. The song was re-released by Wizard Records in 1982,and reached No. 17 on the Australian singles charts.
The Pink Finks were an Australian pop/R&B band of the mid-1960s. Based in Melbourne,the group is most notable for being the first in the series of bands that featured Ross Wilson and Ross Hannaford,which culminated in the hugely successful Daddy Cool.
Ross Andrew Hannaford was an Australian musician,active in numerous local bands. He was often referred to by his nickname "Hanna". Widely regarded as one of the country's finest rock guitarists,he was best known for his long collaboration with singer-songwriter Ross Wilson,which began as teenagers,with The Pink Finks and forming the seminal early '70s Australian rock band Daddy Cool. Hannaford died of cancer after being diagnosed a year earlier.
Gary Young is an American-born Australian musician who was a founding member of Australian rock band Daddy Cool in which he played the drums and sang backing vocals. He also played drums with Jo Jo Zep &The Falcons amongst other bands. Young was twice inducted into the Aria Hall of Fame as a member of both Daddy Cool and Jo Jo Zep &The Falcons which were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame in 2006 and 2007 respectively.
Daddy Who?... Daddy Cool is the 1971 debut album by Australian rock band Daddy Cool.
Daddy Cool are an Australian rock band formed in Melbourne,Victoria in 1970 with the original line-up of Wayne Duncan,Ross Hannaford,Ross Wilson and Gary Young. Their debut single "Eagle Rock" was released in May 1971 and stayed at number 1 on the Australian singles chart for ten weeks. Their debut July 1971 LP Daddy Who? Daddy Cool also reached number 1 and became the first Australian album to sell more than 100,000 copies. The group's name came from the 1957 song "Daddy Cool" by US rock group The Rays. Daddy Cool included their version of this song on Daddy Who? Daddy Cool.
Love,Power,Peace:Live at the Olympia,Paris,1971 is a live album by James Brown. It is the only recording that documents one of his live performances with the original J.B.'s lineup featuring Bootsy and Catfish Collins. Love,Power,Peace was originally intended for a 1972 release as a vinyl triple album,but was cancelled after the key members of the original J.B.'s left Brown to join Parliament-Funkadelic. The album was finally released for the first time in 1992,edited down for a single compact disc;the full show,using Brown's original mixdown was later released in July 2014 on Sundazed Records.
Sons of the Vegetal Mother were an Australian "esoteric special-occasion progressive band",formed in late 1969,with a floating line-up based around the nucleus of Ross Wilson and Ross Hannaford. A side-project of the band,formed in 1970 was Daddy Cool,which played 1950s doo-wop music plus some originals. Daddy Cool were to eclipse their parent band when their debut single "Eagle Rock" reached No. 1 on the Australian National charts.
Mighty Kong were an Australian 'supergroup' successor to Daddy Cool,which broke up in August 1972. It was also the fifth in the line of groups that featured singer-songwriter Ross Wilson and guitarist Ross Hannaford,which began with Pink Finks in 1965. Despite its all-star line-up,drawing from three of the top groups of the time,the band was short-lived and never really achieved its considerable potential,effectively relegated to being a footnote in the story of Daddy Cool.
Silver is a 1983 studio album by Cliff Richard,marking his 25th anniversary in music. The North American version was titled Give a Little Bit More and had a revised track list.
The Beatles Box is an eight-record box set of Beatles recordings,initially released on 3 November 1980 by World Records,a mail-order subsidiary of EMI. It was also issued in two formats by Reader's Digest in New Zealand,Australia and Mexico.
The Platinum Collection is a compilation album by German singer Sandra released in 2009 by Virgin Records.
The New Cool is the third studio album,by Australian rock band Daddy Cool. It was released in November 2006,thirty-four years after the release of their previous studio album,Sex,Dope,Rock'n'Roll:Teenage Heaven.
Wayne Ian Duncan was an Australian rock musician. In 1970 he was a founding member of the doo-wop band,Daddy Cool,providing bass guitar and backing vocals. They were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2006. During his career he had also been a member of the Rondells,Sons of the Vegetal Mother,Gary Young's Hot Dog,Jane Clifton and the Go Go Boys,the Black Sorrows,and the Hornets. In late November 2016 Duncan had a stroke and died a week later,he was survived by his domestic partner,Anne,and by two children. According to Australian music journalist,Ian McFarlane,"Duncan was never a sedate bassist. One only has to listen to some of the latter-day DC material... to hear how inventive his playing could be."
Daddy's Coolest is the sixth compilation album by Australian rock band Daddy Cool,released in 1982. The album peaked at number 5 on the Australian Kent Music Report and at number 29 on the Recorded Music NZ albums charts. It includes tracks from Daddy Cool's two studio albums Daddy Who? Daddy Cool and Sex,Dope,Rock'n'Roll:Teenage Heaven. The album was re-released in 1992,which reached number 35 on the ARIA Charts.
"Impeach the President" is a single by funk band the Honey Drippers,written and produced by Roy Charles Hammond,known as Roy C. It was first released on Alaga Records in 1973,and was re-released to iTunes by Tuff City Records in 2017,after being sampled hundreds of times since the mid-1980s. It is a protest song advocating the impeachment of then-President of the United States Richard Nixon. In the chorus,the band chants the song's title while Roy persuades them to stop. The B-side is "Roy C's Theme".
Serban Ghenea is a Canadian audio engineer and mixer.
"Come Back Again" is an Australian rock song,released by Daddy Cool in September 1971 on the Sparmac record label. It reached number 3 in the Australian charts.
